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Programme / Presenters
Having the right tools and technology to do our jobs affects us all in the way we carry out our tasks and ultimately impacts on our ability to deliver. The future is no longer beyond our reach and many of the innovative ideas we have discussed previously are ready to be implemented and acted upon. This conference will give sponsors and exhibitors the opportunity to showcase their products and be part of delivering the future.
Trafinz is promoting tools and technology, and in doing so recognises the great work that is underway in the education, enforcement and engineering sectors around New Zealand.
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Ken Laughlin
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The first Key Note Presenter to be confirmed is Ken Laughlin who worked on the ROMANSE project. ROMANSE is a partnership between Hampshire County Council and Southampton and Portsmouth City Councils which aims to influence travel behaviour by the provision of up-to-the-minute traffic and travel information and the use of modern traffic management techniques.
Ken Laughlin is Senior Consultant / ITS Advisor with Dornier Consulting GmbH. His expertise has been gained through over 37 years experience in the traffic and transportation engineering profession with senior management experience and skills in many areas of strategic, project and people management.
His expertise covers the fields of traffic engineering, traffic management and ITS including policy and strategy development, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of all aspects of traffic engineering and ITS schemes at a local, national and international level. Ken has also been involved in a number of projects funded through the European Commission’s research and development framework programmes working with partners from within the European Union.
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He has been involved in the development of ITS since 1995 at both a National, European and International level through the renowned ROMANSE project which formed part of the European Union’s research and development framework which piloted the development of ITS systems. This had led to ITS becoming a core element of European, National and local transport policies and objectives.
Kens previous experience was as Chief Traffic Engineer for Hampshire which gave him responsibility for all areas of traffic and transportation engineering. He has also been responsible for the development, extension and operation of SCOOT Urban Traffic Control and related systems and technologies throughout Hampshire.
Ken was Head of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for Hampshire County Council from 1998 to 2008. He led and directed a group which specialised in all aspects of traffic control and traffic and travel information systems from feasibility and design to implementation and operation throughout Hampshire together with the Area3 Highways Agency Commission. The Group also had an involvement in a number of European Projects which formed the research and development element of the Group’s workload.
In January 2008 Ken joined Dornier Consulting GmbH as a Senior Consultant / ITS Expert in their Middle East and North Africa Region based in Abu Dhabi.
He has been a member of a number of professional and government committees and advisory bodies including:
- Chair of the UTMC Management Group (UDG)
- Transport Operations Coordinating Committee (TOCC)
- IHT’s Network Management and Infrastructure Board
- Chair of the IHT’s Network management and Operations panel
- POLIS Management Committee (European Network of Cities and Regions)
Ken is a chartered member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Member of the Institution of Highways and Transportation. |
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| Professor Ian Johnston AM |
| Monash University Accident Research Centre |
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Ian Johnston is a psychologist with a PhD in human factors. He was Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre from 2001 until his retirement at the end of 2006. He is now a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at MUARC, a Director on the board of the Driver Education Centre of Australia and a Commissioner on the board of the National Transport Commission.
Ian is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Associate Editor of the international journal Accident Analysis and Prevention and an Honorary Life Member of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia.
Ian has won several awards, both national and international, for his work in safety and has published extensively. He received an Order of Australia in January 2007 for his services to transport safety and to professional development in the region.
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| Michael Rose |
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Mr. Michael Rose is the Vice President of Wavetronix LLC, a USA based engineering company engaged in the design and manufacture of multi-frequency microwave detection radar. Mr. Rose joined Wavetronix LLC in 2001, and since that period has spoken on the applications of advanced traffic radar both domestically and internationally. Wavetronix technology is deployed on ITS projects worldwide from the Beijing ring roads project deployed in preparation for the Olympics, to locations on the busiest motorway in Europe, the M-25 London orbital, to the Florida Turnpike – the longest single continuous detection corridor using radar in North America. |
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| Anders Eugensson |
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Anders Eugensson received his Master Degree in Civil Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and Imperial College, London, England in 1978.
Between 1984 and 1987 he was part of the team that worked on the structural crashworthiness design of the Volvo 850. During the late 1990s he held a position with the Volvo Safety Center dealing with strategic safety issues and governmental relations.
Since the beginning of 2003 he has been the Director of Governmental Affairs within Volvo Car Corporation.
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Volvo Cars has committed itself to a goal that no one should be killed or injured in a Volvo by the year 2020. This goal was adopted in late 2007 and is unique. Volvo has set a very bold and ambitious target aimed at both Volvo as a vehicle manufacturer and its customers as well as society. To achieve this goal Volvo will rely heavily on the active safety technologies that are currently being developed. |
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| Todd Litman |
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Via live video link in Canada
Todd Litman is founder and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative solutions to transport problems. His work helps to expand the range of impacts and options considered in transportation decision-making, improve evaluation methods, and make specialized technical concepts accessible to a larger audience. His research is used worldwide in transport planning and policy analysis.
Mr. Litman has worked on numerous studies that evaluate transportation costs, benefits and innovations. He authored the Online TDM Encyclopedia, a comprehensive Internet resource for identifying and evaluating mobility management strategies; Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates and Implications, a comprehensive study which provides cost and benefit information in an easy-to-apply format; and Parking Management Best Practices, the most comprehensive book available on management solutions to parking problems. Mr. Litman is active in several professional organizations, including the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Transportation Research Board (TRB, a section of U.S. National Academy of Sciences). He currently chairs the TRB Sustainable Transportation Indicators Subcommittee. |
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| Keith Hall |
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KEITH C. HALL
AICP MPIA MNZPI
Keith Hall is the current CEO of the New Zealand Planning Institute. Keith has a professional objective in this professional community to develop an emphasis that the future of the planet will rely on our professional, knowledge, capability, commitment and ethics to enable the creation of a sustainable transportation infrastructure through urban design and strategic planning initiatives.
Keith achievements include - Graduate Studies in Law, South Texas College of Law 2004 – 2005; Master of Science, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin 1992;
Bachelor of Arts, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin 1989
Keith has also published
“The Urban Design Forum: Toward a Common Urban Agenda,” Urban Magazine June 2008
“Housing Affordability in New Zealand,” Australian Planner December 2007
“North American Retail Development Trends,” Planning Quarterly September 2007 |
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Mark Hadlow |
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Having been a professional actor for nearly thirty years it’s no surprise that Mark Hadlow is a household name in New Zealand. Theatre has long been a passion and with over 100 professional theatre productions as an actor and a director his experience is vast. From The Court Theatre in Christchurch to the Auckland Theatre Company Marks array of acting credits shine the length and breadth of New Zealand. Lead roles, support roles, spear-carriers to musicals his theatrical career has made him a jack-of-all-trades and master of a couple. From Shakespeare to Sheridan, and Pinter to Porter, reviews have always described his energy as electrifying and brilliant, and his comic timing is superb.
In 1995 he won ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR and a year later BEST THEATRICAL performance for SNAG. In an age where professional experience is shadowed by the ethic of profit and cost cutting, here is a performer and actor whom inspires the belief in the craft and motivates not only himself, but also others around him to seize the moment and strive for success. |
Not content with his performance and directorial and producing skills in live Theatre, he has had numerous appearances on Television from the Ansett “ripped trousers” TV Commercial to the BILLY. T. JAMES show to name a few. He also does a considerable amount of corporate work, from M.C’ing Conferences to motivational speaking and performing in New Zealand and the UK and fronting the New Zealand component of the Worlds largest Amateur Golf Tournament The BMW Golf Cup International.
Mark looks forward to working with everyone at the conference.
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Contact Details
Glenda Harding
Harding Consultants Ltd
PO Box 5512
Christchurch
Email: glenda@hardingconsultants.co.nz
Phone: +64 3 352 5598
Fax: +64 3 352 0197
Mobile: +64 27 436 3083 |
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